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ANTI - DRAFT PROGRAMMING 2
I've little doubt that when guys say they're actually asking for form 150 that they've
either done so or intend to do so.or wish in their heart of hearts that they had the
guts to do so. Question, how can you: snowball those individualized requests or wishful
thoughts into a communal stall that can be publicly known, and,more important, known by
other kids you're trying to get to do the same thing? I think we need some kind of
registration system. You station yourselves at both the entrance to and exit from the
examination process. At the entrance, you do what you guys are doing: pose the alternative, give out information on C.O. At the exit, you ask guys who asked for (and got)
form 150 to signify by signing a list. You are then in a position to (1) publicize
the numbers of guys who got forms, (2) have names for follow-up, which is to me an
obvious necessity: You will want to keep in touch with them to offer legal advice,
call on them for leafleting, (in accordance with the principle that approaches to kids
are best made by people who are either congenitally invulnerable to the draft or no less
vulnerable than the kids themselves. Kids might be reluctarft to sign a list but this
should be ascertained, not just guessed at. I would think that they would want to keep
in touch with you and that this imperative would outweigh the privatization impulse, but
I might be wrong. In any case, numbers should be kept. Certainly an analysis of what
you guys are doing should be written and circulated (ERAP Newsletter, Vietnam Newsletter.)
Also recomment Locker's idea of researching the draft board and telling guys who these
bastards are who're trying to get their heads blown off. If the C.O. alternative isn't
an unadulterated success, you'11 want to maintain a battery of alternatives that guys
can choose from. Drawing that up- is one of the jobs of the Bloomington meeting.
Organizing students: Booth asked me what I thought. Originally I was more excited about
rallying ordinary kids. Then Locker read me an interview with the head of Michigan Selective Service. This worthy gentleman pointed out that there were 76,000 students in
Michigan (presumably this includes part-timers, kids in junior and community colleges,
etc.) and that 20,000 of the lousy brats would be drafted. If such is the case, the
campus should be fertile soil for an anti-draft movement. The advantage is that male
students could, I suspect, me more effective organizers on the campus than off.v I
think we could tip over some campuses if we push the thing hard.
United States of America against David Htenry Mitchell
What should we do when our government demands that we torture, murder and subjugate people?
David Mitchell twice refused induction and was arrested. He has pleaded not guilty
and has moved to dismiss the indictment against him. He charges that the government
has arrested him for obstructing U.S. crimes -- from Vietnam to the Dominican Republic,
from Korea to Cuba, from the Congo to . . .
"In the tradition of Thoreau and the principles of Individual Guilt and Individual Responsibility established at the Nuremberg trials and in the first session of the United Nations, we assert the right and obligation of the individual to protest and dissociate himself from these criminal preparations." From
the November 1962 initiating statement of etd.
The government has been playing its number game. They shifted the hearing on the dismissal motion from September 27 to September 7 -- apparently trying to avoid students
returning to Yale campus. They scheduled jury selection for September 8.
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ANTI - DRAFT PROGRAMMING 2
I've little doubt that when guys say they're actually asking for form 150 that they've
either done so or intend to do so.or wish in their heart of hearts that they had the
guts to do so. Question, how can you: snowball those individualized requests or wishful
thoughts into a communal stall that can be publicly known, and,more important, known by
other kids you're trying to get to do the same thing? I think we need some kind of
registration system. You station yourselves at both the entrance to and exit from the
examination process. At the entrance, you do what you guys are doing: pose the alternative, give out information on C.O. At the exit, you ask guys who asked for (and got)
form 150 to signify by signing a list. You are then in a position to (1) publicize
the numbers of guys who got forms, (2) have names for follow-up, which is to me an
obvious necessity: You will want to keep in touch with them to offer legal advice,
call on them for leafleting, (in accordance with the principle that approaches to kids
are best made by people who are either congenitally invulnerable to the draft or no less
vulnerable than the kids themselves. Kids might be reluctarft to sign a list but this
should be ascertained, not just guessed at. I would think that they would want to keep
in touch with you and that this imperative would outweigh the privatization impulse, but
I might be wrong. In any case, numbers should be kept. Certainly an analysis of what
you guys are doing should be written and circulated (ERAP Newsletter, Vietnam Newsletter.)
Also recomment Locker's idea of researching the draft board and telling guys who these
bastards are who're trying to get their heads blown off. If the C.O. alternative isn't
an unadulterated success, you'11 want to maintain a battery of alternatives that guys
can choose from. Drawing that up- is one of the jobs of the Bloomington meeting.
Organizing students: Booth asked me what I thought. Originally I was more excited about
rallying ordinary kids. Then Locker read me an interview with the head of Michigan Selective Service. This worthy gentleman pointed out that there were 76,000 students in
Michigan (presumably this includes part-timers, kids in junior and community colleges,
etc.) and that 20,000 of the lousy brats would be drafted. If such is the case, the
campus should be fertile soil for an anti-draft movement. The advantage is that male
students could, I suspect, me more effective organizers on the campus than off.v I
think we could tip over some campuses if we push the thing hard.
United States of America against David Htenry Mitchell
What should we do when our government demands that we torture, murder and subjugate people?
David Mitchell twice refused induction and was arrested. He has pleaded not guilty
and has moved to dismiss the indictment against him. He charges that the government
has arrested him for obstructing U.S. crimes -- from Vietnam to the Dominican Republic,
from Korea to Cuba, from the Congo to . . .
"In the tradition of Thoreau and the principles of Individual Guilt and Individual Responsibility established at the Nuremberg trials and in the first session of the United Nations, we assert the right and obligation of the individual to protest and dissociate himself from these criminal preparations." From
the November 1962 initiating statement of etd.
The government has been playing its number game. They shifted the hearing on the dismissal motion from September 27 to September 7 -- apparently trying to avoid students
returning to Yale campus. They scheduled jury selection for September 8.
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